Recipe for a pocket at CALCIO. 2024.
“Using the drive as an incubator, mirroring a studio, Lucía del Valle Ramírez and Rita Silva have been developing new work over a period of 6 months, without the previous perception of each other’s identity and practice. This anonymity allowed them to generate new ways of communication based on language and image, enabling them to focus on process and on generating a common space.
The correspondences have enlightened shared themes on each other’s practice: repetition, the daily landscape and auto-fiction, which were slowly uncovered through time. Their dynamic of answer to answer permitted them to direct each other, to guide and be guided.
The game of not knowing who is on the other side created an impulse to imagine, to create a fictional image of who the other person might be. Moved by intuition, each answer gave clues of each other and each other’s work. Similarly to putting up a puzzle together without knowing the final image, little by little the image reveals itself.
The artists have remained anonymous during the conception of the show. They will meet online for the first time, two weeks before the opening, to plan the installation of the exhibition in Calcio, exploring the ways their works can exist together in a physical space.
What fits into a pocket?
A letter, a photograph and a hand.”
Curated by @annaillalba
21st June - 21st July 2024.
ᴄᴀʟᴄɪᴏ. Artist run project space in South Bermondsey, London
Rehearsal, Lucía del Valle Ramírez, One channel video, 2024
Cloth, Lucía del Valle Ramírez Embroidery on textile 40 x 44 cm, 2024
Will you tell it for me?, Rita Silva, One channel video on newsprint paper, 2024
“Using the drive as an incubator, mirroring a studio, Lucía del Valle Ramírez and Rita Silva have been developing new work over a period of 6 months, without the previous perception of each other’s identity and practice. This anonymity allowed them to generate new ways of communication based on language and image, enabling them to focus on process and on generating a common space.
The correspondences have enlightened shared themes on each other’s practice: repetition, the daily landscape and auto-fiction, which were slowly uncovered through time. Their dynamic of answer to answer permitted them to direct each other, to guide and be guided.
The game of not knowing who is on the other side created an impulse to imagine, to create a fictional image of who the other person might be. Moved by intuition, each answer gave clues of each other and each other’s work. Similarly to putting up a puzzle together without knowing the final image, little by little the image reveals itself.
The artists have remained anonymous during the conception of the show. They will meet online for the first time, two weeks before the opening, to plan the installation of the exhibition in Calcio, exploring the ways their works can exist together in a physical space.
What fits into a pocket?
A letter, a photograph and a hand.”
Curated by @annaillalba
21st June - 21st July 2024.
ᴄᴀʟᴄɪᴏ. Artist run project space in South Bermondsey, London
16-28 Penarth St, London, United Kingdom SE15 1TX
Rehearsal, Lucía del Valle Ramírez, One channel video, 2024
Cloth, Lucía del Valle Ramírez Embroidery on textile 40 x 44 cm, 2024
Will you tell it for me?, Rita Silva, One channel video on newsprint paper, 2024
https://calcio.london/recipe.html